Man Ray,

Man Ray, who was born Emmanuel Radnitzky in 1880 in Philadelphia and died in 1976 in Paris, was representative of the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. He was an autodidact, and in 1922 his studio became the favored one of the avant-garde in Paris, where he experimented with photographic techniques and assemblages. In 1961, Man Ray received the award for photography at the Biennale di Venezia.